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NEW YORKMisuseHealthcareHealthcarePrivilege AbuseCustomer Data InvolvedPHIHealth (basic)Identity (basic)Financial accountMediumResolved

SUNY Upstate Medical University

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Severity

Medium

Discovered

Filed

Nov 9, 2018

To disclose

Affected

1,216

Confidence

69%
Full breach record for SUNY Upstate Medical University

SUNY Upstate Medical University reported to HHS on 2018-11-09 a Unauthorized Access/Disclosure affecting 1216 individuals. Breached information located on Electronic Medical Record. An employee impermissibly accessed medical records of 1,216 individuals, exposing PHI including names, addresses, birthdates, health insurance, diagnoses, lab results, and medications. The CE notified HHS, affected individuals, and the media, and implemented corrective actions including policy updates and staff retraining.

HIPAA clock HHS notified
no discovery dateNo discovery date was extracted, so no notification clock can be evaluated.
⚠ No discovery dateThe OCR public portal omits the discovery date, so the 60-day notification clock cannot be evaluated from this source — only that the filing was submitted.

Incident timeline — partial

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Breach window unknown

Nov 9, 2018

Filed

No filing yet · watching

Compliance clocks stay unassessable until a regulatory filing lands. Dashed segments fill in automatically when corroboration arrives.

Tracked as a single-filing incident — the only disclosure on record for this event so far.Confirmed1,216 affectedView incident

Evidence ladder

Leak-site claim

Attacker assertion only. Establishes: claim date, group, alleged victim.

Press / market report

Unlocks: incident narrative, operational impact. Still no compliance clock.

State AG / regulator filingThis record

Unlocks: discovery date, data types, affected count, compliance clock.

SEC 8-K / victim statement

Unlocks: materiality, stated response, full audit trail. Ceiling removed.